Notices

Originally Posted by YoDude

Do European stations broadcast below 88.0?
Is 87.5 ~ 87.9 heavily populated?

Originally Posted by pycage

I don't know where you live but here in south Germany the whole FM band from 87.5 up to 107.9 is heavily polluted by stations and mirrors of mirrors of stations. Scanning through the whole range it's not rare that you'll find the same stations at four or more frequencies.

To answer the question about scanning for frequencies, the FM receiver would not be needed as signal strength detection is also a feature of the FM tuner hardware. It just has to be utilized.

Originally Posted by ~phoenix~

hmm... what about a widget button with "use next avaliable frequency"
when you press it the fm reciever will measure the signal strengh of the next 20 frequencies.... if there is a frequency with signal strengh under a specified value then set to the freq with lowerst value... else search next 20...

another thing is my radio automatic switches freq when signal is to low.... ex. radiostation sends on 105,3... after 50kilometres it sends on 98.5... for some way my radio automaticly tunes in 98.5 when i leave the 105,3 area.... normaly it search up... but for some strange reason it changes freq to 98.5 to recieve the same radiostation...

how is this feature workin? can we build in that feature in the n900??

sry for my bad english...

Originally Posted by tzsm98

I was thinking for testing purposes only of course we do not want to oversaturate the area around our N900 with illegal, overpowered FM transmissions. If it is that hard to find an empty frequency now, just imagine how tough it would be if your neighbors all put a 1 watt amplifier on their N900.